Monthly Archives: August 2017

In most professional sports, at the conclusion of each season one player is identified as the best of all the rest. This choice of MVP or Most Valuable Player is said to be an objective assessment of which player performed at a sustained level of excellence throughout the season, that distanced him from his peers. The NBA’s choice for MVP during the 2016-2017 season was the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Russell Westbrook. Now, hold that thought. ESPN has a sports program…..

Allow me to return one final time to the account of the road rage shooting in Chester County, PA. This time I wish to discuss the event from the vantage point of the young man who fired the weapon. As tempting as it is to look at this individual in disgust and wish for him all he “deserves,” and perhaps even hate him, it is precisely the least healthy thing we could possibly do. A wonderful psychologist that I have…..

In part one, I spoke of the two paths available to us at the initial onset of anger; and the importance of choosing the path of growth over the path of destruction. Let me use the same road rage example for this part two discussion, but taken from the point of view of the parents and family members of the young victim. Counselors tells us there are generally seven stages of grief: Shock and denial. Pain and guilt. Anger and…..

I was deeply saddened by the news of the road rage incident in Chester County, PA, in late June of this year. Apparently, two drivers were jockeying for position during the merging of traffic from three lanes into two and one of the drivers became so enraged he shot a gun into the other car, taking the life of the other driver, a recent high school graduate. I am sad because this ended the life of a bright young woman…..